If you think smokers are selfish then how do you feel about?

byebye

well done

SoftTSoul

I think kissing a smoker is a lot like licking an ashtray.

FRAGINAL-NOYPI

Smokers contribute to paying more taxes and employment for those working in tobacco companies.

Mr. Smoothie, aka Mr. SmartAss

you are a community service

Tez

i am a real slave, thank you masser !

Heather

I only think smokers are selfish if they smoke around others. If you want to kill yourself thats your choice.

~Girlie~

Yer,ok =]

carl

i think smokers got bad breath

zeppelin_roses

You have a good point and are right in what you say but I don't think that means that smokers aren't selfish for that reason.

Do any smokers smoke because they want other people to benefit from the tax revenue? or do they smoke because THEY want to smoke?

koalatcomics

yeah except i dont need you to be a slave to something that kills more than you. sorry you mental illness to put something that deadly into your body doesnt give you license to screw up my life and health too...no pass on this one.

ashymojo

If smoking was Banned all non Smokers would be seriously ill because the Tax Smokers pay.
PAYS FOR the NHS

domme me

i doubt that the money taken in tax pays for all the NHS chemotherapy, leg amputation, radiotherapy, asthma treatments, biopsies, etc, etc, ad nauseum....

zoeksalamander

I am broke and have no money for cigarettes and Iw as doing so well till I read this!

cassidy

Is it not the other way around, the hospitals are full of people with smoking related diseases, so they pay toward the treatment they have as a result of smoking

What nonsense. I smoked 20 a day for 12 years until 2 months ago and I gave up because it is really anti social, you stink and you look older than everyone else. It also costs a fortune and puts chemicals that kill any vitamins in my body. The taxes are not helping us - smokers cost us a fortune by taking up the beds in hospitals and all the drains on the NHS anyway. I hated smoking because of all this. Give up - everyone is now before the ban....

farplaces

I am not a smoker but do defend the right for those that choose to smoke.

When burning leaves or any other form of trash is illegal and enforced lawfully entirely throughout the country then, only then, would I denounce smoking in public and not a day sooner.

One person burning one pile of leaves in the fall permits more smoke into the air than one person smoking cigarettes for a lifetime. Yet, how often do we hear people say the smell of burning leaves is a pleasant smell of the fall season...?

Restraunts have the ability to provide safe and isolated smoking areas as well as lounges so why must smoking be banned entirely in a community. We do have machines such as ion precipitators that filter smoke one hundred percent, why are they not required instead of totally banning smoking...?

Many people live a full life and even beyond 75 years of age while still smoking, so why should they be denied their privilege for the sake of the status quo...?

For those that suffer allergies and asthmatic problems, I sympathize with you, but I don't think the world should be changed because you have the problem and not everyone else...!

If people would realize the problems caused by smoking is not of tobacco itself but is of the chemical additives the manufactures blend into tobacco then perhaps we would be taking the right initiative to correct a situation rather than ban smoking entirely.

There are more deaths, injuries and medical expense relative to alcohol consumption, so why is tobacco getting all the heat when alcohol is truly the worst problem...?

It seems we have too many femme-nazi groups making a stink stronger than tobacco smoke that should be home tending to chores instead of bleeding their senseless laments to the US Congress and the media...!

It's quite obvious that tax dollars are the real interests and those on the no-smoke bandwagon are the incentive to take advantage of it.

Why then...not alcohol...?

Libby L

Well said. When half the money you are paying for cigarettes goes to the government I don't see why people are complaining. I mean in one year a smoker is probably paying AT LEAST $700 in taxes on cigarettes. Multiply that by millions of smokers and that is a hell of a lot of tax money that nonsmokers don't have to pay every year. I don't see why everyone has such a problem with smokers. In the state I live you can't smoke within 50 ft of a public entrance, much less inside. I know not every place is like that, but it won't be long. Plus when I smoked I was always very conscientious towards non smokers. Maybe I'm the only one, but I doubt it.

Stephen A

Years ago no one cared about smoking , it was the norm. Just what is going on, what's next .

Roy Setyaeka Kurnia

Smoke is like gasoline, the car will be broke down without gasoline. as long we know the right place, right time, right moment to smoke, so be it

meee x

The selfish smokers are the one's who don't give a damn about who they do it in front of!! we all have rights and if I choose not to passive smoke then good for me! :-)) and the one's who choose to do it whilst being pregnant!:-(

bottomburps

'we are all slaves to something'
be that as it may, my particular vice does not harm anyone but me.

chillipope

You didn't explain how I benefit from your smoking ? Is it because it makes my ashtma worse when I have to share a pub with smokers ? It is because I have to wash my clothes three times to get the stench of smoke ? Smokers create more problems than their tax pounds create.

Add to that kids born with deformities or health issues due to smoking mums and I think you argument sinks without trace

You get real.

It's Me

Keep justifying your bad habits. I'm sure it will take you far in life.

I'm sure we all benefitted from the taxes paid on the gun the guy at VT bought too?

bill

The tobacco companies are not the ones blowing the second hand smoke into peoples faces

dollymixture

aww huni do you seriously believe the public benefit from the taxes on cigarettes?

steve

I like how smokers think they can just 'buy' their way out of a problem through the taxes they pay on their dirty habit. This only highlights just how selfish smokers truly are. First of all, you only pay taxes on cigarettes because you have no other choice, not because you're good citizens. If you're all such good citizens, why did the government have to force the money out of you by passing these taxes into law in the first place? Secondly, the taxes you smokers pay do not undo the problems you cause. If you ran over and killed my kid with your car, it would not be alright to throw money at me and call it even. I rather not have the problem in the first place. And thirdly, sorry to say smokers, but you're the minority here. More people benefit from these restrictions and bans on smoking than they hurt. Smoking is not a freedom if it alienates other people.

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